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When I first bought my 06 330i, the front bumper was thrashed from the previous owners not going into dips correctly, so as part of my purchase agreement, they refurbished the entire bumper. Pulling into the gym parking lot today, I carelessly pulled into a spot(nose in) with a stall curb, they usually don't have them, and heard the noise you hate hear on your front end....

Backed out knowin what I had done, an heard the sound but 10x worse. No scratching but the material was pulled from one of the securing bolts.

When I first bought my 06 330i, the front bumper was thrashed from the previous owners not going into dips correctly, so as part of my purchase agreement, they refurbished the entire bumper. Pulling into the gym parking lot today, I carelessly pulled into a spot(nose in) with a stall curb, they usually don't have them, and heard the noise you hate hear on your front end....

Backed out knowin what I had done, an heard the sound but 10x worse. No scratching but the material was pulled from one of the securing bolts.

The future is here.

Complete radar system w/send & receive antenna + digital output on one chip was recently announced in Europe. Cost: $1 in large quantities.

I do wonder about resolution and range, but hey....it works! So what's Waterboy prattling on about? RADAR IMAGING

Such a thing can define the terrain your front end approaches rather precisely, enabling park distance control like you never imagined. And here's where AI and driverless vehicles begin to make a great deal of sense, no external sensors or beacons needed other'n GPS.

I suffered that ignominy pulling up to a Redbox... Unseen by me, they had placed a parking block only directly in front of the Redbox machine (no other spaces) AND they placed it about 2 feet from the actual curb (i guess the point was to keep people from blocking acess to the front of the machine, as the sidewalk it was sitting on was not much wider than the machine itself)... Needless to say, i was livid, but no one to yell at but myself...

Happened to me the night I went in to sell my car...Years of driving no issue, and it happened as pulling into lot. I really hate those high curbs. Why can't they make them lower (saves material on production and weight on shipping

I "brown dogged" my 325i's lower front fascia on a freakishly tall parking block in the parking lot where I work. They had replaced this one block for some damn reason and it was a good four inches taller than all of the other blocks in that row.

I doubt most people notice, but I cringe every time I see the front of my car.

The SCRUNCH noise was excruciating. I knew what I had done before I even got out of the car.

I have complained about this many times. BMW makes spoilers too low for US market particularly urban areas with parking blocks, etc. BMW does not care, German designer is more concerned with form than substance. Same goes for cupholders.

Went to see Iron Man 3 on Sunday night, Cinco de Mayo...(not a good timing choice btw). Anyway, I saw three cars parked, one an Infinty, one a BMW 7 Series, and one a Mercededs Benz E350 and all 3 had park/"scraped" over the sidewalk/parking bumper with maybe a millimeter to spare if they were lucky. One of the fellows was hammering his wife after coming out of the the movie for doing it and she was saying, "it wasn't me baby, it wasn't me...". "But you ARE the one who pulled into this spot were you not? I wasn't driving when we got here?!?!", he said. "No baby, it wasn't me baby..."., she said. "I would never do that." He then quietly opened his door and got in his car and "dragged, scraped!" the front underside of the car very hard while slowly backing out, accompanied by a downward "Snnn-aA-PP!!!" to the front bumper underside, followed by a swift sounding "Crr-RACK!!!". I saw the bottom middle split in two with a nice straight chasm up the middle going behind the Mercedes Benz Emblem License Plate to the top of the bumper. "Oh MY F'ING GOD I thought!!!" He's gonna KILL her in front of me right here!!! Well, that didn't happen but I saw him drive away with a look of utter disgust we have all felt at one time or another and and tuck his tail.
I then looked at my wife and said, "you aren't so bad of lovely little creature sweetheart". Thank you for not wanting to drive Daddy's car all the time because you are afraid to do just that! You are smarter than I gave you credit for I love you sooo much baby! XX OO XX OO's. What does your little heart desire tonight. Daddy will take care of it. Smooch, smooch. Then we drove off unscathed...and to the local nicest restaurant for steak and lobster by the beach. Of course she can make mistakes and it happens but you all know those moments are truly avoidable in certain situations. I felt I was watching myself at another time, at an earlier time, but have learned from my mistakes but still keep the peace. Thoughts?